Acting Quotes

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

I want to be acting until the day I die!

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes.

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

Acting was my first love.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

I don't think of myself as a star. An actress is nothing remarkable.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.